Yep, he’s at the very least a *very* sound defensive center right now, but it looks like there’s more meat on the bone to his offensive game as well
ScotiaTailwagger
But but, we traded a former 9th OA that couldn’t make this roster in two years, was leap frogged in development by players drafted after him, who is the same type of player has half our top 9 in the roster, for a solid 24yo need that is a roster player immediately… And he fits what this organization is building!
But people dumber than me said it was a bad trade!
I don’t know *what to think* anymore!
Barmacist
I mean, its not like I don’t want a 3C thats good defensively with elite speed, i just didn’t think we would cough up a recent 9ova pick for that.
Drizzy_Drew
All of his underlying numbers look really strong but one of the criticisms I saw from Oilers fans was that he only seemed to produce offense on Draisaitl’s wing. Taking a look at the numbers this doesn’t seem untrue:
Total GF/60: 2.45 GF/60 w/ Draisaitl: 4.74
Total xGF/60: 3.19 xGF/60 w/ Draisaitl: 3.88
Total Points/60: 1.66 Point/60 w/ Draisaitl: 3.64
I’m concerned that his offensive numbers are inflated during his time on Draisaitl’s wing and it’s making him look like a play driving middle 6 C when really that isn’t the case. His defensive numbers across the board are fantastic so he’s not a fraud and maybe his offensive numbers on the wing came from being put in better offensive situations but it’s still concerning how much of his offensive came from not even playing Center
Radu47
70% is about average for regular NHL players (by which I mean those who aren’t on year to year minimum contracts or ELCs)
Moderately priced UFAs signed every summer are on average just a little bit lower than that, so…
All told McLeod is nice but nothing special and pretty easy to replace
Slightly above average asset ultimately
Good value for cap hit
But not great
The charts correspond to on ice occurrences
Rockhardwood
McLeod is a decent player, but his stats all look a lot more impressive because of the team he was on. Played with drai occasionally, so his offensive stats are pumped. Played on the most elite pk in the playoffs in memory, so his pk stats look good. Etc. Having your 3c be terrified of contact is kinda eh but whatever. He’ll be decent for us. Based on Edmonton, we’ll need to replace him to contend, so he may as well be a rental/stop gap. But for now he’s still out best option, realistically runs that spot until Helenius is here.
The high price, and subsequent cope is what makes this trade bad, not what we got back
BigAssSlushy69
I think we need to pair him with a puck handling guy and feed him one timers to get the offense going more
JMR027
I like most was pissed at first. But if you don’t think it is a ok trade at this point, then not sure. I’m happy with it now
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Yep, he’s at the very least a *very* sound defensive center right now, but it looks like there’s more meat on the bone to his offensive game as well
But but, we traded a former 9th OA that couldn’t make this roster in two years, was leap frogged in development by players drafted after him, who is the same type of player has half our top 9 in the roster, for a solid 24yo need that is a roster player immediately… And he fits what this organization is building!
But people dumber than me said it was a bad trade!
I don’t know *what to think* anymore!
I mean, its not like I don’t want a 3C thats good defensively with elite speed, i just didn’t think we would cough up a recent 9ova pick for that.
All of his underlying numbers look really strong but one of the criticisms I saw from Oilers fans was that he only seemed to produce offense on Draisaitl’s wing. Taking a look at the numbers this doesn’t seem untrue:
Total GF/60: 2.45
GF/60 w/ Draisaitl: 4.74
Total xGF/60: 3.19
xGF/60 w/ Draisaitl: 3.88
Total Points/60: 1.66
Point/60 w/ Draisaitl: 3.64
I’m concerned that his offensive numbers are inflated during his time on Draisaitl’s wing and it’s making him look like a play driving middle 6 C when really that isn’t the case. His defensive numbers across the board are fantastic so he’s not a fraud and maybe his offensive numbers on the wing came from being put in better offensive situations but it’s still concerning how much of his offensive came from not even playing Center
70% is about average for regular NHL players (by which I mean those who aren’t on year to year minimum contracts or ELCs)
Moderately priced UFAs signed every summer are on average just a little bit lower than that, so…
All told McLeod is nice but nothing special and pretty easy to replace
Slightly above average asset ultimately
Good value for cap hit
But not great
The charts correspond to on ice occurrences
McLeod is a decent player, but his stats all look a lot more impressive because of the team he was on. Played with drai occasionally, so his offensive stats are pumped. Played on the most elite pk in the playoffs in memory, so his pk stats look good. Etc. Having your 3c be terrified of contact is kinda eh but whatever. He’ll be decent for us. Based on Edmonton, we’ll need to replace him to contend, so he may as well be a rental/stop gap. But for now he’s still out best option, realistically runs that spot until Helenius is here.
The high price, and subsequent cope is what makes this trade bad, not what we got back
I think we need to pair him with a puck handling guy and feed him one timers to get the offense going more
I like most was pissed at first. But if you don’t think it is a ok trade at this point, then not sure. I’m happy with it now
The Hockey Guy has spoken as of today as well.